Fiction Writing

As this year's National Novel Writing Month reaches its conclusion, we wanted to spotlight some advice that you may find helpful right about now. "You're not really done," observes Justine Larbalestier. "Not even if you managed to finish a whole novel in one month." ("Though if you did," she adds, "congrats!") Now it's time to start thinking about rewriting... well, maybe in a week or so, after you've had a chance to decompress. It's...  

November is National Novel Writing Month. Janice structured this week's carnival, the NaNoWriMo Edition, like the sections of a book. The next carnival will be hosted at As For My House. Submissions are due by Monday at 6 p.m. I look forward to reading your submissions. Carnival of Homeschooling: The NaNoWriMo Edition originally appeared on About.com Homeschooling on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 14:03:32.Permalink | Comment | Email this  

The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) marathon has yielded 676,900,348 words in nine days as writers around the country struggle to compose a 50,000-word novel draft in a single month. If you need some inspiration, check out our NaNoWriMo toolkit or find a NaNoWriMo homebase. Twitter is crowded with NaNoWriMo scribes, and the tweets come pouring in every minute. Here are a few choice tweets from harried writers as they toil under a...  

This month is National Novel Writing Month — Nanowrimo for short. A time for cranking (crunking?) out 50,000 words of elegant prose — or crap, depending. A time (30 days, to be precise) within a time (that lacks a foreseeable end, to be depressing) of widespread unemployment among writers, many of whom used to get paid to wordsmith. Damn, man. Those were the days. But just because the jobs have gone away doesn't mean that the passion has...  

"It is not healthy to spend so much time in the words away from civilization."         Which shows you where I got the title for this blog post, even though the original author meant to say “woods.” But don’t worry, it’s been permapersimmoned.       It’s week two and Day Twelve of National Novel Writing Month, 2009 and of my Nanonovel, The Tenor Who Came In From the Cold. I became a Nano rebel on  November first; I started writing the book I...  

All over the world people have taken inspiration from the folks at National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and are creating other types of month-long creative self-challenges (vlogging, etc.) so I'm going start my own and see how well I can join in by declaring National Write Something On My Blog Everyday Month (NaWriSOMyBloMo), this post being the first step on the journey. I've been working on a very cool project...  

I usually pride myself for keeping up with the times, but now I have fallen way behind. I didn’t even realize students were participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, which is always November) until I was reading some teachers’ blogs over Read More......(read more)  

As National Novel Writing Month continues, Ravenous Romance editorial director Lori Perkins emails us that she's willing to have a look at any completed manuscripts that come out of NaNoWriMo. "One of our writers told us that a lot of agents and publishers on Twitter have refused to even look at NaNoWriMo work, so we really want to get the word out," Perkins says. "I know there's some really good work being written right now and I'd love to...  

Hi freelancers. I know a lot of you are doing National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) right now, so I just wanted to encourage you and wish you luck. This is probably a good time to remind you that About.com has a channel on Fiction Writing, and I've noticed that Ginny has a lot of great quality articles on NaNoWriMo. She's an excellent resource! Good Luck to All NaNoWriMo Writers! originally appeared on About.com Freelance Writing on Monday...  

November is National Novel Writing Month. Every year a bunch of ambitious, over-caffeinated people sign up for this event, affectionately nicknamed NaNoWriMo, at www.nanowrimo.org. The challenge: Write 50,000 words in 30 days.  

Soldiering through NaNoWriMo? There's a (free) app for thatExaminer.comNational Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is in full swing. Participants should have written 1667 words of their 50000 goal written so far. But. ...A really novel ideaHattiesburg AmericanNovember Is For WritingLawrence Journal WorldMac novel-writing toolsEthio Planet Newsall 4 news articles »  

Since one top 10 list created controversy recently with its utter lack of women writers and paucity of writers of color, I wanted to open up a discussion here about the best books of 2009. What books would go on your top ten list? And which ones were missing from certain other lists? (And it doesn't have to be fiction: let's celebrate good writing of any kind.)What's on Your Best of 2009 List? originally appeared on About.com Fiction Writing...  

Examiner.comAsk Michael Chabon anything next week - It's National Novel Writing MonthExaminer.comNational Novel Writing Month is a celebration started by Santa Rosa, CA author, Chris Baty. Its no secret that the Bay area is known to house some of the ...  

WCS participates in National Novel Writing MonthWillits NewsBy day 4 of the project, "some students have already met 40 percent of their goal," Rulison says. Tenth-grade student, Ashley Hopper gets a start on her ...and more »  

On their marks, get set, NaNo!Santa Cruz SentinelLise Quintana, Albert Cheung and Amanda Bernetsky write during a meeting of the Santa Cruz Chapter of National Novel Writing Month at ...